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  • Signed, Sealed... Delivered?

    Behind Certifications and Beyond Labels

    16 Nov 2011 – Report

    Signed, Sealed...Delivered? looks 'behind certifications and beyond labels' at how these tools, and the performance standards that underpin them, create business value.

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  • Survey on Key Challenges and Industry Performance

    Results from The Sustainability Survey

    19 Sep 2011 – Report

    What are the most urgent challenges facing society today? And which of 17 industry sectors are doing the most effective job of managing the most urgent challenges?

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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • The Biodiversity Challenge Revisited

    A Review of the Latest Research and Implications for Business

    27 Oct 2010 – Webinar

    Some businesses are gradually awakening to growing risks and new opportunities as the protection of species and genetic diversity prove more and more critical to global supply chains. Yet too many still assume that government alone has the answers.

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  • Sustainable Brands 2010: “The Power of AND”

    Recap and reflections after SustainAbility's fourth year at Sustainable Brands

    21 Sep 2010 – Article

    Patrin Watanatada sums up the SB10 with the observation that the sustainability efforts most likely to succeed are those that are both robust and data-driven on the one hand, and joyful, surprising, delightful and principles-driven on the other.

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  • Knaves Turned Honest (Food Ethics Council)

    Can 21st century finance sustain 21st century agriculture?

    01 Mar 2010 – Article

    Alexa Clay and Sophia Tickell look at whether 21st century finance can sustain 21st century agriculture.

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  • Big Capitalism’s Growing Appetite for Social Enterprise (Nikkei Ecology)

    A look at Coca-Cola's new stakes in Innocent Drinks

    20 Jun 2009 – Article

    Coca-Cola’s embrace of Innocent will be an important test case of the ability of such corporate giants to dance with infinitely smaller partners without trampling them underfoot.

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  • 2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

    Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

    15 Jan 2009 – Article

    2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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  • Unchaining Value

    Innovative approaches to sustainable supply

    01 Aug 2008 – Report

    Unchaining Value argues that companies should redefine the goals of supply chain management from creating more value at less cost for the company, to creating more value for all supply chain participants at a lower cost to finite global resources.

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  • Keeping It in the Family (China Dialogue)

    01 Jul 2008 – Article

    Family ownership can imbue a firm with a sense of purpose and values its rivals may lack. John Elkington, turning to China’s emerging entrepreneurs, says it’s time to consider best practice in this much-overlooked sector.

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  • The Danone Way (China Dialogue)

    26 Jul 2007 – Article

    France is not usually known for its environmental record. In fact, activists often consider the country an 'environmental villain'. But if companies such as Danone are any indication, things may be about to change.

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  • The Danone Way (Época Negócios)

    04 Jul 2007 – Article

    The French have not been noted for their appetite for sustainable development. But things may be changing, with companies like Danone, Lafarge and Suez moving strongly into this space.

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  • Unilever: Sustainable Fish (Nikkei Ecology)

    150 million times a day people buy Unilever brands. Where does sustainability fit in?

    05 Apr 2007 – Article

    Why Unilever, when it comes to sustainability, is a company to watch.

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  • One Planet Business

    Creating Value Within Planetary Limits

    26 Mar 2007 – Report

    SustainAbility has worked with WWF to develop and launch the One Planet Business program which offers a new framework to measure resource consumption by business and society, and the challenge in bringing these impacts back within planetary limits.

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  • The Wal-Mart Gorilla (Nikkei Ecology)

    08 Mar 2007 – Article

    Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retail chain aims to be a pioneer in the environmental conservation.

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